Release StackPad v2.2.0 · arafatanam/StackPad

Automatic updates, a Help menu, safer saving and a proper Linux release.

Automatic updates. StackPad checks for a new version in the background, downloads it, and installs it when you close the app. Help → Check for Updates checks straight away, and Help → Check for Updates Automatically turns the background checks off
Help menu with the StackPad website, keyboard shortcuts, release notes and Report a Problem, which opens a bug report with your StackPad version and operating system already filled in
About StackPad, showing the version, with a button to copy it for bug reports
Changes made by other programs are noticed. When you come back to StackPad, a file that was edited elsewhere is reloaded if you hadn't changed it. If you had, StackPad asks whether to keep your version or reload the file, so neither is lost silently. Files that were moved or deleted are flagged too
Linux .deb package for Ubuntu, Debian and similar, alongside the AppImage

Saving a file is now crash-safe: the new text is written in full and flushed to disk before it replaces the old file, so a crash or power cut during a save can't leave a half-written document. Read-only files are refused with a clear message, and symbolic links, hard links and Linux file permissions are kept
The app runs on Electron 45 (from 31), bringing current security fixes and a newer Chromium
Linux windows now show the StackPad icon
Installer files are named StackPad.v2.2.0.exe, StackPad.v2.2.0.AppImage and StackPad.v2.2.0.deb

Files in the ANSI (Windows-1252) encoding are now read and written byte for byte in every case, including characters such as € and curly quotes

2.1.0 can't update itself, so install 2.2.0 once from the website. From then on, updates arrive automatically. Your notes are kept.

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